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Investment Banking for Small Businesses in South East Asia
South East Asia is opening up its sores to small business houses from investment portfolio that are willing to drop anchor
and extract the best opportunities available in this part of the world. Cheap resourcing models, with skilled labor forces
allow investment firms to channel their knowledge set to South East Asia. Countries like Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia,
Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Brunei and Burma have managed to tackle recession that is seeping
economic zones across the world.
The factors behind Growth
South East Asia has sporadically progressed as one of the world’s strongest economic zones in recent times. With a
sprawling human resource capital yet to be untapped, small businesses acting as investment firms have their hands full to
choose from 600 million people. Backed by a strong growing middle class population who are ready to take up corporate
opportunities as well as service industry jobs, the region is at the centre of Economic and social action. Researchers assert
that the growth factor behind South East Asia in recent years has been largely due to the inflating figures of credit in
addition to the growing asset bubbles.
Asset management and low interest rates
Despite slowing economic factors, Investment Banking Asia-Pacific is ready to push their assets into offshore regions and
are ready to take a plunge with the mutual and exchange traded funds that are exclusively committed to invest in the South
East Asian nations. Japanese and the US market situations that has huge debt-ridden factor together with the momentous
sum borrowed at stumpy interest rates make investments in newer zones of South East Asia a challenging profile.
Health Currency growth
Currency values in South East Asia have registered a significant rise against much established currencies like Yen, Dollar,
Pound and Euro. Singapore grew by 22 percent against American dollar while Malaysia’s Ringgit and Philippine Peso
grew by as much as one quarter over 2 years. Even the national currencies of emerging countries like the like Vietnamese
Dong and Thai Baht went up by 30 percent. The strongest contender for most lucrative offshore investment zone remains
Indonesia that is growing by 50 percent with large chunk of foreign capital entering the Indonesian market by virtue of
Foreign Direct Investments.
ASEAN backing with funds
Backed by stronger and bigger nations like India and China plying trade relations and mutual development program, the
South East Asian countries are heavily guarded by the ASEAN fund that now stands at a respectable figure of $2 billion.
Socio-Economic Governance and Anti-corruption policy
The countries from South East Asia have made tremendous efforts in straightening out their economic management and
that is what is creating a center of attentions for investment firms of small businesses. A new debt management structure
has helped in cutting down the budget arrears in recent times. Stern policies against tax evasion and corruption have also
allowed countries like Indonesia and Singapore to earn investment grade status recently.
Groomed by relatively low interest rates, the governments are spending in developing and creating infrastructure to
accommodate new economic zones. Liberating the economy from social standard is the biggest factor that is pulling
investment firms towards them. For more information please visit http://www.celadon.asia/